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To: Nachum

Only one conqueror/leader ever gave Jews their freedom. Cyrus the Great of Babylon. 559 BC – 530 BC.


7 posted on 09/17/2013 9:54:41 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Also Ptolemy of Alexandria was pretty nice. He freed 100,000 Jewish slaves and commissioned the translation of the Pentateuch into Greek.


11 posted on 09/17/2013 10:59:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Only one conqueror/leader ever gave Jews their freedom. Cyrus the Great of Babylon. 559 BC – 530 BC.

Cyrus was Persian, not Babylonian.

It's really too bad that Persia fell to islam.

17 posted on 09/17/2013 12:37:44 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

And I thought you were going to say Christ.


23 posted on 09/17/2013 6:30:47 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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